We’re continuing to the ‘Lost in Transcription’ project, exploring meanings conveyed in oral interviews but not in their transcripts.
where you can find, as well, three of our papers on this and related themes.
Comments welcome, for we’ve British Columbia and New Brunswick work in train and two more years to refine.
Jon van der veen jvanderveen@gmail.com
ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.
The scope of ISTAS 08 will include research on:
* Designing and developing ICT with and for citizens, groups and communities.
Web site: http://istas08.ca
Contact: Bill.McIver@nrc.ca
Joy Parr shares this with us:
http://www.acqs.org/qc_studies_journal/table_of_contents.html
Québec Studies 42
Fall 2006/Winter 2007
Sharing Waters: St. Lawrence-Great Lakes
A special issue coordinated by Vincent Desroches and Sylvie Paquerot
Vincent Desroches and Sylvie Paquerot Sharing the Waters: The challenges of Understanding the Other
Madeleine Cantin-Cumyn Legal Status of Water in Quebec
Nicolas Milot and Laurent Lepage The Integrated Management of the St. Lawrence River
Brian Slack and Claude Comtois Short Sea Shipping: The Need for a Realistic Assessment
Sébastien Blouin et Frédéric Lasserre Eau potable au Québec dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent: les impacts des changements climatiques
Alexandre Brun Gestion de l’eau au Québec: quand la politique de l’eau et politique agricole se conjuguent à l’imparfait
Jean-François Bibeault and Christiane Hudon Water Availability: An Overview of Issues and Future Challenges for the St. Lawrence River
Patrick Forrest The Legal Geography of Water Exports: A Case Study of the Transboundary Municipal Water Supplies between Stanstead (Québec) and Derby Line (Vermont)
Sylvie Paquerot The Challenges of Legitimate Governance of the Great Lakes and of the St. Lawrence: Between Ecosystem Considerations, Diversity, and Fragmentation
Amy Lovecraft Bridging the Biophysical and Social
The
Jeffrey Stine, Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
James Rodger Fleming and Henry A. Gemery, eds., Science, Technology, and the Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Joel A. Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
James C. Williams, Energy and the Making of Modern
Dale H. Porter, The
William McGucken,
Hugh S. Gorman, Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the
Jonathan Richmond, Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in
Stephen Cutcliffe, STS Program, 327 Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University, 9 West Packer Ave.,
Phone 610-758-3350
e-mail: stephen.cutcliffe@lehigh.edu.
I remain a professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. Every fall my wife Deborah, a geographer at the College of Staten Island/City University of New York, and I teach a course on land-use planning at the Environmental Studies Program at Princeton University. We were in South Dakota in June filming a forthcoming documentary tentatively titled “Buffalo Commons: Return of the Buffalo.” We continue our Buffalo Commons work on the land-use future of the Great Plains and are expanding our approach to other depopulating places such as the Lower Mississippi Delta; Buffalo, New York; and comparable regions and cities abroad. I was interviewed twice on National Public Radio this summer, and in August a front-page story on our Buffalo Commons work appeared in USA Today.
Pat Munday wrote a post on the 2007 SHOT Envirotech Roundtable in his blog Ecorover. See it here: http://ecorover.blogspot.com/2007/10/ecorover-goes-to-washington-dc.html
Pat Munday worked with the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups to write and direct a brief image event, “President Bush Grills an Endangered Species,” to publicize the plight of the Big Hole River grayling, a species recently removed as a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASzy-ikmYA
Seeking a student interested in pursuing the MS in Technical Communication in the research area of Environmental Communication.
The research is centered on the role of citizen participation in shaping Superfund remedies at various sites in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin of Montana (“America’s Largest Superfund Site”). Tasks may include oral interviews of participants; reading and summarizing relevant literature; rhetorical analysis of risk communication; and reading, classification, and coding of archival documents and interview transcripts.
The Department of Professional & Technical Communication offers the MS degree in Technical Communication. For more information on admissions requirements, the curriculum, and the faculty, please see the department website at http://www.mtech.edu/hss/ptc/grad_program.html .
If interested, please email me directly with a letter of interest and a resume to pmunday@mtech.edu.
Thank you,
Professor Pat Munday, PhD
Technical Communication Department
Montana Tech
Butte MT 59701
Soon after settling in Butte in 1990, Montana Tech professor and environmental historian Pat Munday became interested and involved in Superfund issues. For many years, he worked with groups such as the Clark Fork River Technical Assistance Committee and Trout Unlimited to promote remedies protective of human and environmental health. Now that the remedies, or Records of Decision, have been completed on most sites in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin, it’s time to step back and examine Superfund as a social and political process.
“As America’s largest Superfund site, this is a story the nation needs to know,” Munday explains. The National Science Foundation agrees, and has awarded Munday a two-year grant to study the role of citizens in shaping Superfund remedy at several sites in the upper Clark Fork. The grant is a Science & Society Scholar Award, and will also support a graduate research assistant in the Technical Communication master’s program.
“Once remedies are implemented, the total cost of Superfund in this area will far exceed one billion dollars,” Munday said. “The sheer amount of money is just one indicator of how hard citizens, grassroots organizations, and activist scientists worked to try and persuade the Environmental Protection Agency and ARCO-British Petroleum to do the right thing.” In his study, Munday will compare the relative effectiveness of citizens in shaping remedy at major sites such as Milltown Dam, Anaconda Community Soils, and Butte Priority Soils. His thesis is that public participation works, with the extent of public participation more or less correlating with the quality of clean-up.
Joy Parr put out a call for tips about relevant literary sources for envirotechies earlier this year. These are a few of the submissions. Hopefully we can expand on this list later.
Pat Munday suggested the following titles:
Abbey, Ed. 1975. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Required reading.
Brautigan, Richard. 1974. Trout Fishing in America. The chapter titled “The Cleveland Wrecking Yard” is especially insightful regarding the buying, selling, and artificial construction of the “natural” world.
Callenbach, Ernest. 1975. Ecotopia. I don’t know if it still resonates with students—it sure did in the late 1970s.
Dineson, Isak (aka Karen Blixen). 1938. Out of Africa. Western technology & imperialism meet indigenous Kenyan cultures.
Faulkner, William. 1942. The Bear. Touching story of a young man coming of age in a world where technology/development are displacing nature.
LeGuin, Ursula. Lots of her stuff is strong on the enviro/tech theme—my favorite for class use is the 1976 novel, The Word for World is Forest. Human imperialism expands to the planet of Athshe, where the “Creechies” enter a dream-time to defeat the invaders.
McCarthy, Cormac. 2006. The Road. I’ve not actually used this in a class, yet, but it offers deep insights into what we appreciate (and take for granted!) about technology and the natural world.
Piercy, Marge. 1991. He, She, and It. Nice feminist spin on the Golem story.
Generally, anything by Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder, or Wallace Stegner is good.
Finn Arne Jørgensen suggested these (mostly scifi) books that deal with environment and technology in various ways:
Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars (trilogy on the colonization and terraforming of Mars)
Kim Stanley Robinson: 40 Signs of Rain
Kim Stanley Robinson: 50 Degrees Below
Kim Stanley Robinson: 60 Days and Counting
Bruce Sterling: Heavy Weather